BIO: Logan A. MARSHALL, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, historical editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, York Borough, Pg 35

LOGAN A. MARSHALL, wholesale liquor and wine dealer, was born in Warrington 
Township, October 26, 1837.  He is a son of James and Elizabeth (Ulrich) 
Marshall, and is of Scotch-German descent.  His father was born in Edinburgh, 
Scotland, in 1794, and at twelve years of age came to America and settled in the 
"Upper End" of York County, where his death occurred in 1879.  The mother of Mr. 
Marshall was born in this county in 1794.  The first years of our subject were 
spent on the farm.  He came to York in 1863 and engaged in the hotel business, 
which he continued one year and then began the wholesale liquor business.  In 
1865 he went to Indiana and remained in the West until 1876, when he returned to 
York, where he has since resided.  He was married in 1860 to Miss Cecelia 
Picking, of Dover, daughter of William S. Picking, who for fourteen years was a 
clerk in the house of representatives at Harrisburg.  They have had six 
children, two of whom are living: Annie M. and Neonia E.  Mr. Marshall is a 
Mason and one of the successful business men of York.